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THE  COMMITTEE  OF  FIFTY 
NOVEMBER,    J  9 12 


How 

the  Uncared-for  Epileptic 

Fares  in  Illinois 


Colony  Care  the  Remedy 


A  Plea  for  Immediate  Legislative  Action 
How  You  Can  Help 


THE   COMMITTEE   OF   FIFTY 

1912 


TABLE   OF  CONTENTS. 


I.      Prefatory  Note 5 

II.      Units  from  an  Army  of  Ten  Thousand:   What  Happens 

to  Uncared-for  Epileptics  in  Illinois.     The  Problem  by  Districts.      6 

III.  States  in  which   there  are   Epileptic  Colonies,   giving 

Detailed  Information 24 

IV.  Epilepsy    and    Children  :    A  Plea  for  the  Right  Help  at  the 
j<->  Right  Time    26 

/^  . 

^;  T          V.      Estimated   Number  of   Epileptics   in    Each   Senatorial 
^  District 28 

^         VI.      Map  Indicating  Boundaries  of  Senatorial  Districts...    29 

VII.      Description  Outlining  Boundaries  of  Senatorial  Dists.    30 

•^j         VIII.      Colony  Care  for  Epileptics:  The  Approved  and  Tested  Method.   32 

J  IX.      Report  of  the  Committee  of  the  Illinois  Conference  of 

S  Charities  and  Corrections  on  the  Needs  of  Epileptics 

in   Illinois 41 

b  X.      Bibliography 43 

XI.      Program  of  Action:  What  You  Can  Do 46 

XII.      Names  of  the  Committee  of  Fifty 47 


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PREFATORY  NOTE. 

This  pamphlet  calls  your  attention  to  a  situation  which 
urgently  needs  your  help.  Ten  thousand  of  our  fellow-citizens 
in  the  State  of  Illinois  are  afflicted  with  epilepsy.  ]\Iany  of  them 
are  suffering  as  the  unhelped  epileptic  alone  can  suffer,  and  Illi- 
nois is  fastening  upon  its  future  an  incalculable  burden  because 
of  the  indift'erence  which  entirely  ignores  their  needs  and  rights. 

The  call  comes  from  every  quarter  of  this  rich  and  powerful 
state.  Xot  a  day  goes  by  that  does  not  bring  the  tragedy  of  this 
situation  to  the  doctor,  the  judge  of  the  Juvenile  Court,  the  vis- 
iting nurse,  social  workers,  to  the  clergyman,  to  the  officers  of 
institutions.  Helpless  and  sick  at  heart,  they  are  obliged  to 
turn  the  unfortunates  away  without  help  or  promise,  or  else,  as 
happens  with  sickening  frequency,  start  the  machinery  that  will 
send  boys  and  girls  with  bright  minds  to  the  school  for  feeble- 
minded, or  to  the  insane  asylum. 

This  is  singularly  unjust  when  science  and  philanthropy 
have  demonstrated  that  epilepsy  yields  most  gratifyingly  to  colony 
care ;  that  this  affliction  makes  the  sufferers  particularly  sym- 
pathetic and  helpful  to  each  other,  and,  morever,  that  colony  life 
affords  cure  for  some,  radical  improvement  to  others,  and  to  all, 
opportunities  for  employment,  recreation  and  association.  It 
restores  in  some  measure  what  is  denied  outside,  where  they  are 
shunned  and  refused  employment. 

This  army  of  ten  thousand  afflicted  neighbors  is  composed 
of  individual  human  units.  While  many  do  not  need  public 
care,  hundreds  of  them  have  suffered  experiences  similar  to  those 
which  follow.  These  stories  are  told  in  the  hope  that  citizens 
and  legislators  of  Illinois  will  not  let  another  session  of  the  legis- 
lature pass  without  creating  a  colony  for  epileptics. 

Careful  studies  of  the  situation  by  those  competent  to  judge, 
place  the  number  that  should  be  provided  for  at  once  at  two 
thousand  or  twentv-five  hundred. 


Units  from  an  Army  of  Ten  Thousand* 

What  Happens  to  Uncared-for  Epileptics  in  Illinois. 
A  State-Wide  Problem. 

Seventh  Senatorial  District. 

"Doctor  I  can't  get  work.  No  one  will  have  me  when 
they  find  out.  My  friends  avoid  me.  I  am  less  of  a  man  than 
I  was  six  months  ago.  I  can  feel  myself  going.  This  can't  go 
on.  I  know  that  there  is  no  place  in  Illinois  for  any  one  with 
epilepsy.  But  doctor,  I've  got  to  do  something.  For  God's  sake 
can't  yon  help  me?  Can't  I  be  arrested  and  sent  to  the  bride- 
well?" 

The  doctor,  a  citizen  of  the  Seventh  Senatorial  District, 
saw  the  young  fellow  walk  out  of  the  door  and  into  the  street 
without  a  shadow  of  the  promise  of  help  which  he  hoped  to  get. 
The  interview  was  one  of  those  tragic  human  contacts,  a  great 
need  revealing  itself  to  a  big  heart  and  an  able,  sympathetic  mind, 
but  nevertheless  as  helpless  as  it  was  big  and  able.  It  left  one 
man  with  a  little  less  courage  to  hold  himself  from  slipping,  the 
other  sick  at  heart  to  sit  impotent  in  front  of  an  appeal  like  that. 


"And  then  what  can  we  do  for  the  epileptic  himself?  We 
can  give  him  occupation  and  something  to  strive  for.  We  can 
give  him  associates  and  recreations.  We  can  give  him  vastly 
better  health,  radically  cure  some  of  him,  and  eliminate  the 
feeling  that  he  is  an  outcast,  something  apart  to  be  looked  at 
askance." 

(Dr.  Hugh  T.  Patrick,  The  Proper  Treatment  and  Care  of 
the  Epileptic.  See  Proceedings  of  the  Eleventh  Annual  Meet- 
ing of  the  State  Conference  of  Charities,  Chicago,  1906;  p.  54.) 


THE  SIMPLE  ANNALS  OF  A  LITTLE  CITIZEN. 

Ninth  Senatorial  District. 

George  was  the  youngest  of  a  large  family.  He  was  an 
epileptic,  but  bright,  and  made  good  grades  in  the  school,  getting 
95  in  most  of  his  studies.  His  seizures  became  more  and  more 
frequent.  He  had  them  in  school.  Conditions  in  the  family 
were  straitened,  and  it  became  necessary  to  take  some  action. 
The  only  thing  that  the  State  of  Illinois  could  offer  this  little 
lad  of  nine  was  admission  to  the  school  for  the  feeble-minded. 
This  made  a  jar  even  in  Illinois,  but  it  was  the  best  that  could 
be  done.  But  the  school  was  full,  and  George  could  not  be 
admitted.  What  the  State  of  Illinois  then  did  to  this  lad  of 
nine  was  to  send  him  to  an  insane  asylum  and  place  him  in  a 
ward  with  fifty  insane  men. 

After  a  time  he  was  removed  1)ecause  the  sight  of  the 
little  boy  with  men  of  all  ages  and  conditions  of  insanity  shocked 
and  horrified  a  citizen  who  saw  him.  The  lad  expressed  a 
wish  "to  go  where  it  was  quiet."  He  was  sent  to  the  country 
where  he  improved,  then  returned  home  and  led  a  devious  ex- 
istence, spending  some  time  in  the  Bridewell,  and  adding  to 
his  first-hand  knowledge  of  insanity  a  varied  acquaintance  with 
men  old  in  crime. 

Finally  his  case  was  mercifully  solved.  George  died.  To 
his  last  moment  he  could  see  and  hear  things  that  had  been 
burned  into  his  soul  in  his  experiences  among  the  insane  and 
prisoners. 


"No  fact  in  medical  science  is  better  established  than  that 
at  least  all  youthful  epileptics  should  be  promptly  transferred 
to  a  colony  apart  from  the  activities,  excitements  and  tempta- 
tions of  town  and  city." 

(Dr.  W.  A.  Gordon,  former  Superintendent  of  Northern 
Hospital  for  the  Insane.  Winnebago,  Wis.  See  [Milwaukee  Free 
Press,  Dec.  9,  1904.) 


"FROM  HIM  THAT  HATH  NOT." 

Tzi'Ciify-cighf/i  Senatorial  District. 

As  a  cliikl.  G.  was  subject  to  sudden  seizures.  He  ate  his 
meals  on  the  tloor.  His  parents  were  poor,  hard  working-  peo- 
ple. In  early  childhood  h.e  was  taunted  and  jeered  at  1)y  children 
of  the  community  who  saw  in  his  seizures  something-  to  pro- 
voke fun.  As  a  youth  he  became  a  danger  to  his  persecutors, 
for  he  resented  their  torments,  and  fear  led  them  to  desist. 
Women  feared  him,  too.  His  family  and  friends,  doctors  and 
social  workers,  sought  in  vain  to  find  some  place  where  he  might 
be  cared  for.  He  was  not  without  ambition,  and  desired  meas- 
ural)ly  at  least  to  take  his  place  in  the  world,  l)ut  nobody  would 
employ  him. 

One  day  he  learned  witli  joy  that  some  promise  of  em- 
ployment had  been  found.  The  town  was  to  pay  him  fifty 
cents  apiece  for  bur^'ing  dead  dogs. 

He  did  all  the  work  he  could  get  as  dog  undertaker,  but 
even  this  was  finally  denied,  for  in  order  to  stimulate  business 
he  began  tO'  kill  dogs. 

Then  there  was  nothing  left.  Finally,  when  his  enforced 
idleness,  lack  of  companionship,  and  general  neglect,  gave  him 
distinctive  criminal  traits,  Illinois  enabled  the  people  of  his  com- 
munity to  take  some  action.  He  was  sent  to  an  insane  asylum. 
The  people  of  his  senatorial  district  were  relieved,  but  not  sat- 
isfied, for  their  sense  of  justice  protested  that  the  boy  had  not 
had  a  square  deal. 


"Eight  hundred  consecutive  unselected  repeated  ofl^enders 
show  seven  and  a  half  per  cent  known  epileptics,  others  sus- 
pected. They  are  the  most  dangerous  and  incalculaljle  criminals. 
Pleasant  one  day,  vicious  the  next,  committing  heinous  crimes ; 
about  twenty  per  cent  of  same  group  feeble  minded,  most  of  them 
high  grade  and  readily  overlooked  in  court  procedure;  after  all, 
fairly  good  talkers." 

Dr.  \\\m.  Healy, 
Ju\-enile  Psychopathic  Institute,  Chicago. 


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'ILLINOIS    HAS    NO    PLACE    FOR    HER    UNTIL   SHE 

COMMITS    SOME    OFFENSE    OR 

BECOMES    INSANE." 


SEEKING    HELP   AND   LOSING   A   HOME. 

Forty-fifth  Senatorial  District. 

John  M.'s  mother  is  a  widow.  The  son,  now  about  twentv 
years  of  age,  developed  epilepsy  after  his  father's  death.  The 
mother  owned  a  little  home.  To  secure  treatment  for  John  she 
worked  at  the  wash  tub  and  mortgaged  her  home. 

Honorable  practitioners  told  her  they  could  not  cure  her 
boy.  Then  she  turned  to  the  glaring  advertisements  of  the 
quacks  and  bromide  venders.  She  read  all  of  them,  and  was  al- 
lured by  their  promises.  She  sent  them  all  the  money  she  could 
scrape  together  through  mortgaging  the  home  and  the  labor  of 
her  hands. 

At  last  the  home  was  gone,  and  her  strength  had  failed. 
The  boy  was  in  a  desperate  condition.  Every  job  he  secured 
was  soon  lost.  "I  can  work  a  while,"  he  said  to  the  State  Char- 
ities Commission  one  day,  "but  as  soon  as  I  have  a  seizure  I  am 
discharged.  I  know  now  that  they  were  giving  me  bromides 
and  strong  drugs  that  were  only  making  me  worse. 

*T  have  to  take  more  and  more,  and  when  I  come  out  from 
under  their  effects,  I  am  weaker  and  duller  than  ever.  Can't  you 
do  something  for  me?  Isn't  there  a  state  institution  for  me?  i\Iy 
poor  mother  has  worked  herself  to  the  edge  of  the  grave  and  has 
lost  her  home,  all  for  me,  and  I  am  no  better." 

Here  was  a  clear,  typical  example  of  the  wreck  of  property 
and  body  through  the  advertising  quack. 

This  young  man  covdd  work  in  the  garden,  but  not  on  the 
farm  where  he  would  have  to  attend  horses  and  other  animals. 

For  such  a  case  a  state  colony  would  l)e  a  blessing.  In- 
stead of  having  two  upon  its  charge,  as  it  will  now  have,  this 
state  could  have  saved  the  mother  her  dependency  and  afforded 
the  boy  a  home  in  which  he  could  have  been  comfortable  and 
partly  self-supporting. 


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ELLEN'S  BEQUEST. 

Tn'ciify-ciglttli  Senatorial  District. 

Ellen's  family  was  thoroughly  impatient  over  the  progress 
of  her  disease  and  umvilling"  ex'en  to  tolerate  her  about  the 
house.  They  had  forced  her  out  to  service  time  after  time. 
She  would  remain  until  she  fell  on  a  stove,  or  in  a  wash  tub, 
or  had  some  equally  serious  mishap,  when  she  would  be  dis- 
charged. In  her  discouragement,  the  child  sought  out  a  hos- 
pital, offering  to  work  in  return  for  treatment  and  maintenance. 
She  met  rebuff  again:  then  she  applied  to  the  Charities  of  her 
town. 

The  help  of  local  physicians  was  enlisted,  but  little  could 
be  accomplished  in  the  face  of  the  family's  indifference  and 
opposition,  and  the  resulting  unhappiness  of  the  girl.  She  was 
taken  to  Chicago  for  special  treatment  of  her  eyes,  with  only 
slight  relief.  She  was  taught  carpet  weaving,  which  it  was 
hoped  she  could  do  at  home,  but  the  mother  made  her  work 
in  a  small  shed,  and  was  as  indifferent  as  before.  Then,  hav- 
ing canvassed  tlie  resources  of  the  town,  and  the  entire  state 
for  a  fit  place  to  send  the  girl,  money  was  raised  to  send  her 
for  a  short  time  to  a  prixate  colonv  in  aruither  state. 

When  she  returned  she  begged  not  to  be  sent  home. 
Nothing  else  offered,  however,  and  she  was  obliged  to  go  back 
to  her  family.  She  became  rapidly  worse  and  the  seizures 
more  frequent  and  violent.  Still  again  her  friends  took  up  her 
ease.  This  time  they  induced  a  hospital  to  try  the  plan  the  girl 
herself  devised. 

She  was  very  happy,  and  remained  there  until  in  a  short 
time,  in  her  twenty-third  year,  death  mercifulh'  relieved  her  of 
all  anxiety  about  further  wanderings. 

She  often  talked  with  those  about  her  of  the  hope,  the  one 
big  desire  of  this  young  life,  that  Illinois,  her  state,  should 
some  day  have  a  place  where  epileptics  would  really  have  a  right 
to  eo. 


13 


A  SHUT-IN   FROM    CHILDHOOD. 

Forty-eighth  Senatorial  District. 

Emma  has  been  epileptic  since  infancy,  and  has  hved  the 
Hfe  of  a  shut-in  from  childhood.  Occasionally  the  monotony  is 
broken  and  she  gets  a  glimpse  of  the  big  outer  world  when  an 
extremely  necessary  visit  to  a  dentist,  or  doctor,  who  cannot 
come  to  her,  takes  her  out. 

The  parents  have  devoted  the  best  part  of  their  lives  trying 
to  care  for  her.  She  sleeps  on  a  mattress  on  the  floor,  and  both 
father  and  mother  are  within  call  always,  ready  to  watch  with 
her  through  the  attacks  which  are  bound  to  occur,  in  greater  or 
less  frequency  and  violence,  every  night  of  her  life. 

The  parents  are  growing  old  and  feeble.  The  family 
physician  is  almost  a  daily  visitor,  and  has  had  to  tell  the  old 
couple  what  he  is  every  day  more  sure  of,  that  the  daughter  will 
out-live  both  of  them.  There  are  no  near  relatives.  There  is  no 
place  that  they  know  of  where  she  can  go  after  their  death.  The 
doctor  feels  that  this  load  of  worry  is  actually  hastening  the 
death  of  this  aged  couple.  Their  one  great  wish  is  that  the 
state  in  which  they  live  might  have  some  place  that  could  suit- 
ably care  for  their  afflicted  child. 


''Needless  to  say  that  the  epileptic,  sane  and  insane,  clogs 
the  wheels  of  every  institution  in  these  states  where  no  separate 
care  has  been  provided,  from  the  goal  to  the  hospital  for  the 
insane,  from  the  refuge  to  the  orphan  asylum.  Poor  houses 
and  benevolent  asylums  are  encumbered  with  wretched,  mis- 
placed, misused  creatures.  Of  this  state  of  things  there  can  be 
but  one  opinion — that  it  is  a  disgrace  to  the  community  where 
it  exists." 

(Extract  from  an  address  by  the  late  Dr.  J.  W.  Y.  Eish- 
bourne  of  Melbourne,  Australia.) 


This  special  institution,  preferably  a  colony,  can  be  so  ar- 
ranged as  to  properly  cope  with  the  peculiarities  of  the  epileptic. 
Here  a  suitable  occupation  can  be  provided,  such  as  his  physical 
and  mental  condition  will  permit.  He  can  be  allowed  recreation 
in  many  forms  and  thus  feel  better  contented  w^ith  his  lot.  He 
can  attend  religious  services,  an  opportunity  frequently  denied 
him  in  the  outside  world. 

Dr.  William  T.  Shanahan', 

Superintendent,  Craig  Colony,  N.  Y. 
14 


WHAT  ANSWER  TO   THIS   MOTHER— ILLINOIS? 

Fiftieth  Senatorial  District. 

One  of  the  epileptics  in  the  I'iftietli  Senatorial  District  is  a 
girl  of  23.  At  the  age  of  8  she  suffered  an  attack  of  scarlet 
fever.  Till  then  she  was  as  promising  and  normal  as  any  little 
girl.  She  was  returned  to  her  mother  after  this  sickness  Wind, 
paralyzed  and  mute.  \\'hen  she  had  regained  her  speech  and 
sight  and  the  use  of  her  limbs,  epilepsy  developed. 

At  the  end  of  her  resources,  and  urged  by  her  friends  and 
familv,  the  mother  placed  the  child  in  an  asylum  for  the  insane, 
the  onlv  place  that  could  be  found.  She  had  been  accustomed 
to  the  best  food,  delicately  prepared,  and  had  never  been  made 
conscious  of  her  affliction,  never  referred  to  as  an  epileptic  or  in- 
sane. 

She  was  terrified  at  the  actions  and  appearance  of  her  fel- 
low-patients, and  deeply  offended  to  be  regarded  as  insane.  The 
mother  removed  her  after  two  weeks.  It  took  a  month  in  the 
country  and  the  best  care  to  bring  her  back  to  her  normal  physi- 
cal condition,  but  the  mother  feels  that  she  can  never  efface  the 
remembrance  of  things  she  heard  and  saw  and  experienced  in  the 
asylum. 

The  mother  is  a  woman  of  unusual  intelligence,  and  holds 
an  important  public  office  in  her  community.  She  constituted 
herself  nurse,  and  teaclier.  doctor  even,  and  gave  up  the  years 
of  greatest  activity  of  her  life  in  order  to  be  of  service  to  her 
child. 

She  recently  made  a  trip  to  Massachusetts  to  look  into  the 
care  given  epileptics  in  the  colony  in  that  state.  As  a  result  she 
is  contemplating  resigning  her  office  and  moving  the  family  to 
jMassachusetts  to  establish  a  residence  there  for  the  purpose  of 
trving  to  get  the  daughter  admitted.  She  says  that  this  sorrow 
has  aged  her  twenty  years,  and  has  been  an  incalculable  loss  to 
her  in  time  and  efficiency,  and  to  the  happiness  of  the  family. 
The  mother's  only  thought  now  is  t<;)  make  some  suitable  pro- 
vision for  her  child,  for  the  time  is  approaching  when  she  will 
no  longer  be  able  to  care  for  her. 


AN  APPEAL  FOR  "A  MINIMUM"  DEGRADATION. 

Tenth  Senatorial  District. 

"E."s  first  spasm  came  when  she  was  al^out  6  years  of  age, 
but  she  attended  school  until  she  was  12  years  old,  when  it  was 
necessary  to  take  her  out.  Her  family  tried  to  care  for  lier,  but 
as  she  grew  older  she  would  wander  away  from  home  and  go 
about  on  the  streets.  She  became  almost  nightly  the  victim  of 
many  men.  She  would  be  found  in  a  terrible  condition  of  ex- 
haustion and  was  taken  three  times  to  the  police  station,  where 
in  the  morning  she  would  be  turned  out  to  start  over  again  in 
her  wandering's. 

This  was  about  three  years  ag"0.  At  this  time  we  had  her 
taken  to  the  women's  ward  in  our  county  jail  and  a  physician 
was  called.  She  was  fcxind  to  be  in  a  terrible  condition.  Be- 
sides her  spasms  of  epilepsy  she  had  syphilis,  and  the  story  she 
told  us  was  too  horrible  to  relate.  The  only  thing  we  could  do 
was  to  send  her  to  our  County  Farm,  where  we  had  a  trained 
nurse,  and  she  was  given  as  good  care  as  was  possible ;  a  course 
of  treatment  was  directed  by  the  county  physician.  After 
remaining  there  nine  months,  very  much  improved,  she  returned 
home. 

She  remained  in  her  home  for  six  months  or  more,  stay- 
ing- indoors  quite  closely,  until  a  month  before  she  was  sent  to 
Elgin  Insane  Hospital,  which  was  June  25,  1912.  During  that 
last  month  it  was  impossible  for  her  people  to  keep  her  from  the 
streets ;  they  were  unable  to  control  her.  as  she  became  danger- 
ous. She  lost  all  sense  of  morality,  was  in  a  most  deplorable 
condition  morally,  physically  and  mentally. 

The  mother  told  me  yesterday  that  at  the  time  of  their  last 
visit  to  Elgin  two  weeks  ago,  the  physician  said  the  spasms  were 
very  frequent.     She  would  fall  many  times  during  24  hours. 

Among  her  other  experiences  she  gave  l)irth  to  two  illegiti- 
mate children." 


(.oiirUsy  uf  Stute  Cli^rUies  Lviuinissinn. 

Here  is  a  six-year-old  epileptic  Rirl  as  she  was  treated  of  necessity 
at  home.  She  is  tied  like  an  animal.  The  State  Board  of  Charities 
secured  her  admission  to  the  Lincoln  School  for  Feeble  Minded  Child- 
ren, as  the  state  has  no  place  for  the  epileptic.  She  is  receiving:  both 
book  and  manual  education  and  her  seizures  apparently  have  ceased 
under  proper  diet  and  other  treatment. 

17 


AN  UNSOLVED  FAMILY  PROBLEM. 

Forty-first  Senatorial  District. 

Eleven  years  ago  a  German  farnier.  at  the  l)eclside  of  his 
thirteen-months-old  l)ahy  boy,  was  trying  ti)  comprehend  the 
words  of  the  doctor  wdio  was  telhng  him  that  if  the  baby  lived 
he  would  be  different  from  Hilda  and  Leo  and  the  healthy  brood 
of  brothers  and  sisters,  and  realized  that  the  doctor  was  asking  if 
he  had  better  save  the  baby's  life. 

Heinrich  has  been  an  expense  froin  the  first  year  of  his 
life.  Over  one  thousand  dollars  from  the  meager  family  purse 
ha^■e  gone  to  find  a  cure.  The  father  does  teaming  and  truck 
gardening,  and  does  his  best  to  supply  the  things  which  his  chil- 
dren need.  This  added  drain  makes  se^"ere  inroads  on  what  the 
others  ought  to  have.  ]\Iuch  of  the  money  has  gone  for  ad- 
vertised remedies.  The  father  has  heeded  every  suggestion  for 
fear  that  the  one  magic  thing  that  would  bring  results  might  be 
overlooked. 

Heinrich  is  an  attractix'e  little  fellow,  subnormal  mentally,' 
but  with  intelligence  and  capabilities.  He  is  anxious  to  engage 
in  various  activities,  and  w^as  fond  of  school  and  Sunday  School. 
He  still  grieves  because  they  have  been  denied,  but  tries  to  find 
things  to  take  up  his  time  around  the  house  while  l)rothers  and 
sisters  are  in  school.  He  avoids  the  neighbors'  children  for  they 
have  annoyed  him  in  his  seizures.  \\'hen  he  feels  the  spells 
coming-  on  he  hurries  to  the  barn. 

The  family  have  been  told  the  boy  must  ha\-e  certain  kinds 
of  food,  but  the  father  asks  how  he  can  possibly  tell  one  child  at 
the  table  month  after  month  and  year  after  year  that  he  cannot 
have  what  the  other  children  are  given.  The  family  must  deny 
itself  pleasure  of  all  kinds  because  they  cannot  take  the  child  into 
groups  of  people,  as  seizures  always  follow.  The  parents  cry 
when  thev  talk  of  the  bov's  future. 


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EPILEPSY— A  STATE-WIDE  PROBLEM. 

Elcvcntli  Senatorial  District. 

In  the  Eleventh  Senatorial  District  a  lad  of  nine  has  been 
several  times  refused  admission  to  the  public  schools.  There  is 
a  large  family  of  children ;  the  parents  are  poor.  The  family 
cannot  give  the  boy  proper  care,  and  there  is  no  place  for  him. 

Another  lad  of  eleven  in  the  same  district  is  sharing  a  like 
experience.  He  is  on  the  streets,  and  beginning  to  wander  away 
from  home. 

Still  another  lad  of  ten  has  wandered  away  a  number  of 
times  and  been  picked  up  by  the  police.  He  has  repeatedly  been 
refused  admission  to  school,  and  is  falling  among  the  worst  ele- 
ments on  the  street,  and  beginning-  to  be  a  danger  to  himself  and 
to  the  neighborhood. 


T-zcoity-third  Senatorial  District. 

One  case  on  the  docket  in  the  JuN'enile  Court  recently  was  a 
little  girl  from  the  Twenty-third  Senatorial  District.  She  had 
been  deserted  by  her  parents,  and  was  brought  into  the  Juvenile 
Court  in  extreme  need.  In  the  neighborhood  where  the  child 
lived  was  a  poor  woman,  also  an  epileptic,  living  in  a  room  on 
the  top  floor  of  a  tenement.  She  could  barely  eke  out  an  ex- 
istence because  it  was  difficult  for  her  to  get  employment.  But 
she  sympathized  with  the  child  and  took  her  in.  The  case  was 
brought  to  the  Ju^•enile  Court  only  when  both  were  nearly 
starved. 

Thirty-tJtird  Senatorial  District. 

E.  H.  has  been  an  epileptic  all  his  life.  The  disease  was 
mild  at  first,  but  nothing  was  done  for  him  and  he  has  steadily 
declined.  He  was  the  cause  of  much  trouble  in  the  town.  Al- 
though desirous  of  working  he  has  never  been  able  to  hold  a 
steady  job.  Finally,  at  the  age  of  twenty-fi\e,  he  was  sent  to  an 
insane  asylum. 

A.  S.,  twenty-nine  years  of  age,  cannot  get  work,  owing  to 
the  severity  and  frequency  of  attacks.  He  has  injured  himself  a 
number  of  times  in  his  seizures. 

A.  K.,  twenty-one  years  of  age.  Attacks  began  when  he  was 
sixteen.  He  is  a  laborer,  but  cannot  hold  a  job.  and  is  now  en- 
tirelv  dependent  upon  a  widowed  sister  who  has  fi\'e  children. 

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PICKED  UP  ABOUT  THE  STATE. 

In  one  of  the  institutions  of  the  state  is  a  high  school  teach- 
er who  came  from  the  First  Senatorial  District.  She  is  com- 
pletely incapacitated  from  accepting  any  position. 


In  the  Sixteenth  Senatorial  District  is  a  man  of  forty-five. 
He  has  been  an  epileptic  practically  all  his  life.  He  lives  with 
an  aged  mother,  upon  whom  he  entirely  depends.  His  life  is 
entirelv  useless.  If  he  were  in  a  colony  he  could  be  useful  most 
of  the  time. 


Among  the  problems  in  the  Eighteenth  Senatorial  District 
is  a  young  fellow  of  nineteen,  without  occupation.  He  had  a 
public  school  education,  and  could  be  self-supporting  if  super- 
vised. 

Another  lad  of  nineteen,  untrained,  without  employment, 
was  treated  in  a  hospital  for  a  number  of  years  as  a  charity 
patient.  He  has  been  in  the  insane  asylum.  The  family  is 
poor,  the  stepfather  is  a  laborer,  and  the  mother  takes  in  wash- 
ing. Thev  have  been  on  the  county  books  off  and  on.  The  boy 
is  becoming  brutal  and  vicious,  and  is  a  menace  in  the  neighbor- 
hood.    He  is  not  insane,  so  cannot  be  provided  for. 


A  young  man  in  the  Twentieth  Senatorial  District  suffered 
a  fracture  of  the  skull  from  the  kick  of  a  horse.  There  was  no 
place  in  his  county  where  he  could  be  taken  care  of,  and  the 
judge  asked  permission  to  have  him  sent  to  an  insane  asylum  for 
treatment. 

Another  case  in  the  same  district  is  that  of  a  lad  who  had 
epilepsy  from  childhood.  He  could  not  be  kept  in  school,  and 
was  hard  to  manage  before  his  attacks  came  on.  The  parents 
were  poor,  and  could  not  do  much  for  him.  One  day  he  went 
swimming  and  in  a  seizure  was  drowned. 


In  the  Twenty-fourth  Senatorial  District  in  a  uni\-ersity 
town  is  a  child  of  thirteen.  Has  had  no  training;  is  losing 
memorv.     Family  poor;  mother  illiterate.     There  are  six  chil- 

■21 


dren  under  sixteen.  One,  a  girl  of  five,  is  suspected  of  tubercu- 
losis; the  youngest  child  also  thought  to  be  developing  epilepsy. 
In  the  same  district  is  a  young  man  whO'  lives  with  a 
widowed  mother  who  has  to  take  in  washing  for  a  living.  He 
has  been  growing  constantly  worse,  and  his  mother  loses  much  of 
the  work  she  could  get  because  she  has  toi  stay  at  home.  She 
does  not  know  how  she  can  earn  a  living  much  longer  unless 
something  can  be  done  for  her  son. 


In  the  Thirty-second  Senatorial  District  is  a  young  fellow 
of  twenty,  thought  to  have  developed  epilepsy  from  the  exces- 
sive heat.  Can  get  no  work,  or  go  anywhere  without  a  com- 
panion. 

In  the  same  district  is  a  young  fellow  of  twenty-three;  has 
been  an  epileptic  since  his  eighth  year.  He  got  some  schooling, 
but  was  unable  to  get  work.  Is  normal  mentally,  but  very  ir- 
ritable and  dangerous  after  his  seizures.  Though  not  insane  he 
was  sent  to  an  asylum. 


In  the  Thirtieth  Senatorial  District  is  a  German  woman 
thirty-five  years  of  age.  She  had  brain  fever  when  three  years 
of  age,  and  has  had  epilepsy  ever  since.  With  her  aged  parents 
she  lives  with  a  widowed  sister  who  is  really  unable  to  care  for 
her.  The  epileptic  must  be  kept  in  doors  all  the  time,  and  under 
constant  supervision. 


In  the  Forty-seventh  District  a  man  of  thirty  has  had  seizures 
for  about  thirteen  years.  Attacks  come  irregularly,  sometimes 
twice  a  day,  sometimes  he  will  go  two  or  three  weeks  without 
seizures.  Is  getting  worse,  and  is  not  able  to  take  care  of  him- 
self.    Is  without  means  of  support  and  is  a  case  for  state  care. 

A  child,  age  thirteen,  has  always  been  epileptic,  and  has  had 
muscular  paralysis.  It  is  a  case  sadly  needing  care  which  can- 
not be  given  by  the  family. 

A  child  of  eight.  Large  physically,  but  mentally  unde- 
veloped ;  cannot  go  to  school,  and  cannot  be  properly  cared  for 
by  parents. 


22 


A  boy  of  thirteen  has  been  an  epileptic  for  two  or  three 
years.  The  parents  are  poor.  The  atifliction  makes  it  impossible 
for  the  bov  to  go  to  school.  His  mind  is  now  gradually  weak- 
ening. However,  he  is  not  insane,  and  cannot  be  admitted  to  the 
asylum.  He  cannot  be  sent  to  the  poor  farm  because  his  parents 
are  able  to  keep  him.  He  loafs  around  and  is  a  burden  on  the 
community.  His  only  way  out  is  through  death,  or  insanity, 
or  if  his  parents  should  die  it  would  be  necessary  for  the  com- 
munity to  send  him  somewhere. 

An  unmarried  woman,  now  fifty,  has  been  kept  in  the  house 
bv  her  parents  for  at  least  thirty  years  in  a  desire  to  keep  her 
condition  a  secret.  She  is  kept  locked  up,  and  is  hardly  ever 
allowed  out  on  the  porch.  She  suffers  violent  attacks,  and  the 
lack  of  intelligent  treatment  is  accelerating  her  deterioration. 

These  are  a  few  sample  cases  in  the  Forty-seventh  Senator- 
ial District.  According  to  the  one  in  five  hundred  estimate  made 
by  the  experts  the  world  over,  the  Forty-seventh  has  213  cases 
of  epilepsy,  many  of  whom  stand  in  the  same  need  of  care  as 
indicated  in  these  brief  statements.  The  Forty-seventh  Senator- 
ial District  comprises  Madison  and  Bond  counties. 


"The  epileptic  does  not  easily  assimilate  into  our  social 
system.  His  presence  in  school,  in  church,  and  public  gather- 
ings, in  business  and  S(3cial  life,  is  anomalous,  horrifying  to 
others,  and  humiliating  to  himself." 

(''First  Biennial  Report  of  the  Ohio  Hospital  for  Epilep- 
tics, etc..  1909,  p.  28.) 


23 


STATES  IN  WHICH  THERE  ARE 

EPILEPTIC  COLONIE! 

PLANT 

STAFF 

\'aluation 

of 

Plant 

No.  of  Acres 

Equipment 

No.  of 
Buildings 

Z  a 

ill 

>  o  a 

<ffim 

No.  of 
Employees 

a 

1 
.  a 
o  ta 

>  t 
<  p. 

Location  and 

Date  of 
Establishment 

De- 
veloped 

Unde- 
veloped 

For 

Maintenance 

For  Industrial  Purposes 

a 
Pi 

i2 

S 
>. 

_o 

a 

c 

>  1 

•1 

1| 
11 

6 

OHIO  Hospital  for 
Epileptics,      at 
Gallipolis.    (Es- 
tablished  1890) 

31,033,030.05 

450 

Farm,    Garden, 
Dairy,   Laun- 
dry,  Green- 
houses,  Bakery, 
Butcher  Shop 

School  with  circulating  library; 
Kindergarten,  Dressmaking, 
Plumbing.  Steamfitting,  Car- 
pentry, Shoe  Repairing, 
Tinsmithing,  Blacksmithing, 
Upholstery,  Mattress   mak- 
ing Painting,  Printing 

25 

® 

3 

© 

20 

57.24 

0 

103 

114 

13.85 

NEW  YORK 

Craig  Colony  for 
Epileptics,  Son- 
yea,  New  York. 
Founded     in 
1894 

$1,115,193.37 

021 

1208.80 

Farm,      Garden, 
Dairy,     Laun- 
dry. Bakery. 
Barber  Shop. 
Butcher  Shop 

Blacksmithing,    Carpentering, 
Plumuing,  Shoe  Shop,  Paint 
Shop,  Printing  Office,  Mat- 
tress Shop,   Brick   Yard, 
Soap    Plant,     Dressmaking 
Shop.    Tailor    Shop,    Sloyd 
School 

40 

25 

35 

35 

10 

105 

127 

13  15 

MASSACHUSETTS 

M  0  n  s  0  n  State 
Hospital      Pal- 
mer,   Mass. 
Opened  in  1898 

S834,043.05 

379 

30S 

Farm,  Green- 
houses,    Laun- 
dry, Bakery, 
Nurses'     Train- 
ing School,  Spe- 
cial   Children's 
Colony 

Stone  Crusher,  Sewing.  Indus- 
trial room  with  Wood  and 
Stone     Carving,     Printing, 
Tailoring,  Chair-caning,  Up- 
holstering, Repairing 

10 

4 

2 

51.35 

7 

120 

109 

0.85 

NEW  JERSEY 

State   Village    for 
Epileptics      a  t 
S  k  i  1  1 i  n  an . 
Established 
March,  1898 

$113,225.17 

in  personal 

property 

6) 
1,000 

Farm,  Garden, 
Dairy,  Laundrv 

Mending,  Sewing,  Blacksmith- 
ing,   Printing.   Shoemaking. 
Shoe  Repairing 

10 

5 

1 

34.54     3 

35 

70 

9.87 

KANSAS 

040 

Farm,   Garden. 
Dairy,  Laundry 
Engineering 

School  Sewing  Room 

,^ 

6 

35.90 

3 

40 

17 

State  Hospital  for 
Epileptics 
at  Parsons  (Es- 
tablished   1902) 

12 

2 

10.79 

TEXAS 

Farm,  Garden, 
Dairy 

Sewing  Room 

2 

2+ 

3-h 

State  Epileptic 
Colony  at  Abi- 
1  e  n  e  (Estab- 
lished 1902) 

INDIANA    Village 

$257,534.87 

1,245 

Farm,   Garden 
Dairy 

Carpenter  Shop 

5 

6 

9 

23.2 

for   Epileptics, 
New    Castle. 
(Established 
March,  1905) 

VIRGINIA    State 

240 

700 

Farm.   Garden, 
Laundry 

Patients    helped   in    construc- 
tion 

2 

1 

3 

47.25 

2 

9 

22 

10  5 

Epileptic     Col- 
ony,     Madison 
Heights  (Estab- 
lished April, 
1910) 

CONNECTICUT 

$17,080.00 

220 
acres 
arable 
and  pas- 
ture lane 
Some 
woods 

Colony    for    Epi- 
leptics at  Mans- 
field.      (Estab- 
lished Sept. 
1910) 

Buildings,  Stock 
and  Implements 

©Many  of  the  employees  ha^e  quarters  in  the  same  buildings  as  patients. 
©The  number  of  barn  buildings  have  not  been  ascertained  exactly. 

©The  present  acreage  is  not  so  large,  but  there  is  money  available  for  the  purchase  of  additional  farm  land  bringing  the  total  acreage 
over  1.000. 


Acreage,  Equipment,  Expense  and  Details  of  Management 


PATIENTS 

EXPENDITURES 

Conditions 

Governing 

Admission  of 

Methods  of 
Admitting  Patients 

No.  P'^tients 

Present  at 

End  of  Year 

Daily 
.Average 
Popula- 
tion for 
Year 

Ages  at  Onset 

of  Epilepsy 

Patients 

-Admitted 

During 

Year 

No.  Patients 

Employed  in 

Institution 

Cost  to  State  During  Year 

Male     ,  Female 

Male 

Female 

For  Maintenance 

a 

Patients 

a 
s 

o 

c 

3 
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to 

3  ■« 

:2g 

S2 

o  m 

o 
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o 
o 

o 

o 
n 

o 

S 

3 

S5 

s 

k, 
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3 

Net  Total 

c. 

is 

'5  " 

<Z2 

Application  for  admission 
must   be   made   in   the 
Probate  Court 

' 

96 

1 

1,431 

fi3'>T 

=)34r 

30 
30 

22 
12 

28 
11 

8249,762.96 

$174  54 

817,205.19 

dents   of  Ohio: 
all  classes  of  epi- 
leptics received 

e 

74 

45 

51 

39 

Must  be  citizens 
of  N.  Y.;  equa' 
f.yor  must  be 
shown   every 
county 

Application  through  Supt. 
of  the  Poor  or  Comm'r 
of  Charities.       All  ad- 
mitted as  indigents. 
Able  patients  must  pay 
whole  or  part 

315 

446 

217 

442 

1,381.12 

78 

557 

73.2 

370 

56.1 

$234,224.02 

$169.59 

825.495.52 

Ul  epileptic  citi- 
zens in  State 
eligible 

Insane  epileptics  are  ad- 
mitted on  Court  com- 
mitment, application 
signed    by    two   physi- 
cians and  judge. 

"Dangerous"    epileptics 
are  admitted  in  the  same 
way,  a  different  blank 
being  used.      Sane  epi- 
leptics are  admitted  on 
application  by  one  phy- 
sician and  a  justice;  a 
judge's  signature  is  not 
required 

53 

394 

66 

338 

835.3452 

1 

49 

12 
29 

19 

4 
31 

16 

13 

20 

326 

72.93 

360 

89.11 

8176,396.50 

211.1668 

816,291.62 

Minimum  age  5.   Application  to  superinten- 

52 

136 

47 

125 

345.36 

2311 

3 

27 

12 

1 
10 

157 

83.51 

122 

70.93 

8111,843.11 

S324.1S 

Minimum  term 
1  year.  Helpless 
or  dangerous 
epileptics  or 
those  sick  with 
contagious    dis- 
ease   not    ad- 
mitted 

dent 

35 

lust  be  citizen  of  Sane  epileptics  admitted 
State.     No  low       on   voluntary    commit- 
grade  imbeciles       ment.    Insane  epileptics 
and  idiots                admitted    on    commit- 
ment by  Probate  Court 

12 

283 

11 

167 

431.5 

31 

Allp 
are 
wor 
of 

atie 
able 
k  pa 
time 

n  ts 

to 

rt 

who 

879714.80 

$184.73 

$18,792.57 

^ .1 

^—-^-^    1 

373 

25 

9 

23 

27 

13 

5 

2 

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hav 
dep 
col 
put 
to 

t  pa 
e  wo 
ar  t 
ony. 
ever 
wor 

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rk 

men 

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k 

ts 

in 

tsof 

to 

dy 

862,385.83 

$167.25 

$2,321.89 

31 

1 

57 

115.265 

70 

60.3 

■  830,768.51  S266.937 

$18,718.23 

All  patients  admi  tted  to  the  Colony  so  far 
have  been  obtai  ned  by  transfer  from  State 

® 
4 

106 

94  5 

® 
68 

fil  S 

©          1    © 
$10  124  62   smr  li 

845  8''6  80 

Asylums 

©There  are  quarters  for  some  of  the  officers  and  employees  in  the  administration  building. 
©There  are  included  here  10  patients  who  were  released  from  Colony  during  course  of  the  year. 
(eiDuring  September. 
©For  five  months  from  May  1,  1911,  to  Sept.  30,  1911. 


Epilepsy  and  Children* 

A  Plea  for  the  Right  Help  at  the  Right  Time. 

One  of  the  pathetic  facts  about  the  neglect  of  the  epileptic 
is  the  prevalence  of  the  disease  among-  children  and  young  peo- 
ple. That  our  state  should  neglect  its  wards  and  entirely  ignore 
their  needs  at  the  time  when  it  could  most  profitably  help  is 
cruelty  to  the  victim  and  a  loss  to  the  state  as  well. 

Of  949  patients  admitted  to  the  epileptic  colonies  of  six 
states,  Kansas,  New  York,  New  Jersey,  Texas,  Virginia  and 
Massachusetts,  during  periods  covering  from  one  to  two  years, 
734,  or  'j'j  per  cent,  had  the  first  attack  of  epilepsy  before  they 
were  twenty  years  old.     215,  or  2.2  per  cent,  were  over  twenty. 

In  the  Illinois  State  Hospitals  for  the  Insane  at  Watertown 
and  Kankakee,  out  of  152  cases  reported  as  being  in  residence 
during  1911-12,  91.  or  60  per  cent,  had  the  first  attack  of  epilep- 
sy before  they  were  twenty  years  old.  61,  or  40  per  cent,  were 
over  twenty. 

To  show  the  great  length  of  time  which  often  intervened 
between  the  time  of  the  first  attack  and  the  admission  to  hospi- 
tal care,  the  state  institutions  for  the  insane  of  Illinois  were  asked 
to  report  the  duration  of  the  attacks  at  time  of  admission.  Of 
196  cases  reported  from  the  three  institutions  at  Watertown, 
Kankakee  and  Jacksonville,  14,  or  7  per  cent,  received  treatment 
very  soon  after  the  onset  of  epilepsy,  y^i^  or  -^y  per  cent,  waited 
from  two  to  ten  years  before  they  were  admitted  to  the  hospitals, 
45,  or  23  per  cent,  from  ten  to  twenty  years,  and  64,  or  32  per 
cent,  did  not  enter  hospitals  until  more  than  twenty  years  after 
the  onset  of  the  disease.  One  man  waited  fifty-five  years,  an- 
other fifty-three,  another  fifty,  and  nine  for  forty  years  or  over. 

These  people  had  to  wait  till  loneliness,  neglect,  lack  of  em- 
ployment, humiliation  and  disappointment  had  contributed  to 
physical,  mental  and  moral  decline — before  any  door  was  open — 
and  that  the  door  of  an  insane  asylum. 


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Ten  Thousand  Epileptics  in  Illinois* 

The  Problem  by  Senatorial  Districts. 

This  figure  is  arrived  at  by  applying  to  the  population  of 
Illinois  the  estimates  of  experts  the  world  over,  viz.,  that  there 
is  one  epileptic  in  every  three  to  five  hundred  of  the  population ; 
we  have  taken  the  larger  number,  one  in  five  hundred.  This  es- 
timate is  arrived  at  after  intensive  studies  among  large  groups 
of  people,  and  is  accepted  by  the  best  authorities  in  practically 
every  civilized  country. 

During  the  summer  of  191 2  a  casual  inquiry  as  to  the  prev- 
alence of  epilepsy  was  made  in  each  senatorial  district  of  this 
state.  Social  workers,  teachers,  physicians,  superintendents  of 
institutions,  poor  farms,  officials  of  dispensaries  and  others  were 
visited  and  all  co-operated  heartily.  This  very  cursory  study 
has  made  it  seem  that  the  estimate  of  one  in  five  hundred  is  an 
under-statement  of  the  real  situation. 

The  stories  set  forth  in  this  pamphlet  indicate  something  of 
the  struggles  and  hardships  of  the  individual  units  in  this  great 
army.  They  are  our  neighbors.  Their  often  tragic  lives  are 
lived  in  our  A-er}-  midst. 

Dividing  the  population  into  senatorial  districts,  and  taking 
as  a  basis  of  estimate  the  figures  of  experts,  viz.,  one  epileptic  to 
500  of  the  population,  gives  the  distribution  of  these  people  as 
follows : 


SENATORIAL 

NUMBER 

SENATORIAL 

NUMBER 

DISTRICT. 

EPILEPTICS. 

DISTRICT. 

EPILEPTICS. 

1 

144 

27 

210 

2 

174 

28 

206 

3 

204 

29 

140 

4 

26S 

30 

210 

5 

246 

31 

304 

6 

342 

32 

179 

7 

286 

33 

199 

8 

205 

34 

108 

9 

284 

35     . 

191 

10 

182 

36 

183 

.   11 

296 

37 

191 

12 

153 

38 

244 

13 

330 

39 

ISO 

14 

205 

40 

161 

15 

204 

41 

235' 

16 

168 

42 

193' 

17 

176 

43 

191 

IS 

200 

44 

166 

19 

290 

45 

250 

20 

200 

46 

109 

21 

246 

47 

213 

22 

210 

48 

238 

23 

224 

49 

239 

24 

165 

50 

262 

25 

364 

51 

182 

26 

170 

28 


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COOK  COUNTY  DISTRICTS. 
1st.  2nd,  3rd.  Mh.  5th,  6th,  7th, 
9th.   nth.   13th,   15th,   17th,  19th, 
21st.  23'd.  25th,  27th.  29th  and  31st. 


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Dist. 

1.  1-  irst  and  2d   wards,    Chicago. 

2.  That  pai-t  of  the  11th  ward  north  of 
Kith  street;  that  part  of  the  12th  ward 
north  o£  16th  street  and  east  of  Califor- 
nia avenue,   and  the  20th  ward,   Chicago. 

;i.  Third  ward;  that  part  of  the  4tli  ward 
east  of  Halsted  street:  that  part  of  the 
5th  ward  bounded  by  Union  avenue,  35th 
street,  Parnell  avenue  and  Sod  street; 
that  part  oi"  the  0th  ward  north  of  4'M 
street,    Chicago. 

4.  Twenty-ninth  and  30th  wards  and  that 
part  of  the  31st  ward  north  of  57th 
place  and  east  of  the  Kock  Island  right 
of  way,   Chicago. 

5.  Sixth  ward,  except  that  part  north  of 
4:M  street,  and  the  7th  ward,  except  that 
part  south  of  63d  street  and  east  of  Cot- 
tage Grove    avenue,    Chicago. 

6.  Twenty-fourth  ward;  that  part  of  the 
2.jth  ward  north  of  Devon  avenue;  that 
part  of  the  23d  ward  west  of  Halsted 
street,  and  the  6th  ward.  Chicago;  also 
that  part  of  the  town  of  Evanston  outside 
Chicago  and  those  parts  of  the  towns  of 
New  Trier  and  Niles  within  the  city  of 
Evanston,    Cook    count.v. 

7.  Towns  of  Thornton,  Bloom,  Rich,  Brem- 
en, Orland.  Lemout,  Palos,  Worth,  I-yons, 
Stickney,  Proviso.  Leyden,  Elk  Grove, 
Schauniburg,  Hanover.  Barrington,  Pala- 
tine, Wheeling,  Northtield;  that  part  of 
Niles  outside  the  city  of  Chicago  and  out- 
side the  city  of  Evanston;  that  part  of 
New  Trier  outside  the  city  of  Evanston, 
and  those  parts  of  the  towns  of  Norwoo<l 
Park  and  Maine  outside  of  Chicago,  all  in 
Cook   county. 

8.  Lake.    Henry   and   Boone    counties. 

'.).  That  part  of  the  4th  ward  west  of  Hal- 
sted street;  the  5th  ward,  except  that 
part  bounded  by  Union  avenue,  35tli 
street,  Parnell  avenue  and  33d  street; 
16th  street,  California  avenue,  the  C.  B. 
part  north  and  west  of  ICth  street, 
&  Q.  right  of  way.  Clifton  Park  avenue. 
24th  street.  Central  Park  avenue,  to  the 
Illinois   and   Jlichigan   canal. 

10.  Ogle    and    Winnebago   counties. 

11.  Thirty-first  ward,  except  that  part  north 
of  57th  place  and  east  of  the  Rock 
Island  right  of  way,  and  the  32d  ward, 
Chicago. 

12.  Stephenson  to  Jo  Daviess  and  Carroll 
counties. 

13.  That  part  of  the  7th  ward  south  of 
63d  street  and  east  of  Cottage  Grove  ave- 
nue; the  Sth  and  33d  wards.  Chicago,  and 
that  part  of  the  town  of  Calumet  outside 
of    the   city   of  Chicago. 

14.  Kane   and   Kendall    counties. 

15.  Ninth  ward,  except  that  part  north  and 
west  of  14th  street.  Johnson  street  and 
Maxwell  street;  10th  ward,  except  that 
|iart  north  and  west  of  16th  street, 
Throop  street,  14th  street  and  Morgan 
street,  and  that  part  of  the  11th  ward 
south  of  10th  steret,   Chicago. 

10.  Marshall.  Putnam,  Livingston  and  Wood- 
ford  counties. 

17.  That  part  of  the  9th  ward  north  and 
west  of  14th  street.  Johnson  street  and 
Maxwell  street;  that  part  of  the  10th 
ward  north  and  west  of  IGth  street, 
Thvoop  street,  14th  and  Morgan  street, 
and  the  19th  ward,   Chicago. 

IS.   Peoria     county. 

19.  That  part  of  the  12th  ward  north  and 
west  of  California  avenue.  C.  B.  &  Q. 
right  of  way  and  Clifton  Park  avenue: 
13th  and  34th  wards.  Chicago;  the  towns 
of  Cicero,  Berwyn  and  Riverside,  In  Cook 
county. 


ILLINOIS    SENATORIAL    DISTRICTS. 
Established  May   10,    1901. 
Dist. 


20.  Kankakee,  Grundv  and  Iroquois  coun- 
ties. 

21.  Fourteenth  ward;  that  part  of  the  17th 
ward  south  of  Augusta  street.  Holt 
street,  Cornell  street.  Milwaukee  avenue 
and  Green  street;  that  part  of  the  3olh 
ward  south  of  Chicago  avenue.  Park  ave- 
nue  and   Lake   street,   Chicago. 

22.  Vermilion    and   Edgar   counties. 

2:!.  I'ifleenth  ward;  that  part  of  the  16th 
ward  bounded  by  North  avenue,  Robey 
street.  Division  street  and  Ashland  ave- 
nue; that  part  of  the  .3oth  wai-d  north  of 
Chicago  avenue  west'  of  Park  avenue  and 
north  of  Lake  street,  Chicago,  and  the 
town   of  Oak   Park   in   Cook   county. 

24.  Champaign,  Piatt  and  Moultrie  coun- 
ties. 

25.  Twenty-seventh  and  2Sth  wards,  Chi- 
cago. 

20.   McLean   and    Ford  counties. 

27.  Sixteenth  ward,  except  that  part  bniuid- 
ed  b.v  North  avenue.  Robey  street.  Divi- 
sion street  and  Ashland  avenue:  that  part 
of  the  17th  ward  liounded  by  Ashland  ave- 
nue. Augusta  street.  Holt  street,  Cornell 
street,  Kinzie  street,  river  and  Division 
street;    ISth    ward.    Chicago. 

2.S.   Logan.    DeWitt    and    Macon    counties. 

29.  Twentv-tirst  ward,  .  except  that  'part 
north  of  Goethe,  State  and  Schiller 
streets:  22d  ward,  except  that  part  west 
of  Halsted  street,  and  except  that  part 
north  and  west  of  Sedgwick.  Sigel, 
Cleveland.  Clybourn,  Larrabee  and  Di- 
vision,    Chicago. 

30.  Tazewell.  Mason.  Menard,  Cass.  Brown 
and    Schuyler    counties. 

31.  That  part  of  the  21st  ward  north  of 
Goethe,  State  and  Schiller  streets;  that 
part  of  the  22d  ward  west  of  Halsted 
street  and  that  part  of  the  22d  ward 
east  of  Halsted  street  and  north  of  Di- 
vision. Larrabee,  Clybourn.  Cleveland  and 
Sigel;  that  part  of  the  23d  ward  east  of 
Halsted  street,  and  that  part  of  the 
25th  ward  south  of  Devon  avenue.  Chi- 
cago. 

32.  McDonough,  Hancock  and  Wan-en  coun- 
ties. 

.33.  Rock  Island,  Mercer  and  Henderson 
counties. 

34.  Douglas.    Coles    and    Clark    counties. 

35.  Whiteside.    Lee    and     DeKalb    counties. 

36.  Scott,  Calhoun,  I'ike  and  Adams  coun- 
ties. 

37.  Henry,  -Bureau    and    Stark    counties. 

38.  Greene.  Montgomery.  Jersey  and  Ma- 
coupin   counties. 

39.  LaSalle    county. 

40.  Christian.  Shelby.  Fayette  and  Cum- 
berland   counties. 

41.  DiiPage   and    Will    counties. 

42.  Clinton,  Marion.  Clay  and  Effingham 
counties. 

43.  Knox   and    Fulton   counties. 

44.  Washington.  Randolph,  Pen-y,  Monroe 
and   Jackson   counties. 

45.  Morgan    and    Sangamon    counties. 

40.  Jefferson,  Wayne,  Richland  and  Jasper 
counties. 

47.  Madison    and    Bond    counties. 

48.  Hardin.  Gallatin.  White.  Edwards.  Wa- 
bash,   Lawrence   and    Crawford   counties. 

49.  St.   Clair   county. 

50.  Franklin.  Williamson,  Union,  Alexan- 
der  and    Pulaski    counties. 

51.  Hamilton,  Saline,  I'ope.  Johnson  and 
Massac   counties. 

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Colony  Care  for  Epileptics* 

The  Approved  Method  Affords  Employment,  Association,  Recre- 
ation— Enables  Patients  to  Help  Themselves 
and  One  Another. 

The  failure  of  Illinois  to  make  provision  for  her  epileptic 
citizens  is  peculiarly  regrettable  because  of  the  fact  that  these 
people  yield  so  satisfactorily  to  colony  care. 

All  authorities  agree  that  there  is  something  in  their  af- 
fliction which  makes  epileptics  unusually  sympathetic  and  help- 
ful to  one  another.  Common  suffering  gives  them  a  language 
of  experience  which  each  can  comprehend.  They  assist  one 
another  during  seizures;  there  is  no  taunt  or  jeer,  but  a  quick 
and  ready  understanding  and  exchange  of  courtesy  and  help. 

Nine  states  have  recognized  their  responsibility  to  this 
class  of  sufferers  and  have  created  colonies  for  their  care.  A 
chart  showing  date  of  establishment,  the  number  of  acres,  scheme 
of  management,  and  cost  of  these  colonies,  is  given  on  pages 
24  and  25  of  this  pamphlet. 

VICISSITUDES  OF  THE  UNCARED  FOR  EPILEPTIC. 
Unable  to  Attend  School  or  Church. 

The  very  nature  of  epilepsy  deprives  its  victim  of  school 
and  church  associations.  It  is  shocking  to  others  to  be  the  in- 
voluntary witness  of  an  epileptic  seizure,  and  the  unfortunate 
suft'erer  cannot  help  but  realize  the  aversion  which  his  condition 
produces.  He  is  nearly  always  sensitive,  and  is  loath  to  appear 
in  public  assemblages.  His  moral  sense  becomes  blunted  be- 
cause of  his  inability  to  enjoy  social  intercourse,  and  he  gives 
free  vent  to  the  irritability  and  the  melancholia  which  are  the 
natural  accompaniments  of  his  disease. 

Unable  to  Get  Work. 

The  average  epileptic  because  of  his  peculiar  condition  can- 
not well  adjust  himself  to  the  life  of  an  ordinary  community. 
The  convulsive  seizure,  the  milder  attacks  w'ith  their  disturb- 
ances of  consciousness,  and  the  more  or  less  prolonged  period  of 
mental  change,  as  a  rule  prevent  an  epileptic,  even  though  of 
good  or  fairly  normal  mentality,  from  being  able  to  hold  a  posi- 

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tion  and  securing  employment.  The  danger  of  sudden  seizures, 
with  the  hkehhood  of  falHng  and  of  injury,  and  the  spectacle  of 
an  epileptic  in  a  fit.  makes  employers  shun  him. 

Furthermore,  he  is  often  incapacitated  for  work  during  a 
l^eriod  of  time  following-  a  seizure.  He  cannot  be  depended 
upon  to  complete  any  undertaking.  From  the  industrial  stand- 
point he  is  incapable  of  giving-  satisfaction  in  a  position  of  re- 
sponsibility. Thus  he  finds  difiiculty  in  supporting  himself,  and 
is  apt  to  become  a  charge  on  the  public. 

Unable  to  Get  Proper  Care  at  Home. 

The  family  of  an  epileptic  is  seldom  able  to  give  him 
proper  care.  Lack  of  means,  lack  of  understanding,  or  the 
foolish  indulgence  which  cannot  bear  to  deprive  the  afflicted 
member  of  any  desire,  however  unreasonable,  operate  in  a  great 
majority  of  cases  to  render  care  at  home  unsatisfactory  to  both 
patient  and  family.  ]\Iany  cases  are  on  record  where  family 
resources  have  been  exhausted  by  patent  cures  which  did  more 
harm  than  good.  Anxiety  for  the  future  of  such  a  child  often 
shortens  the  life  of  parents,  and  when  father  and  mother  are 
gone  he  is  thrown  upon  the  community. 

Dangerous  to  Himself. 

The  epileptic  is  a  constant  source  of  danger  to  himself  and 
to  others.  He  is  liable  at  any  time  to  fall  in  convulsions,  in- 
juring himself  by  striking  hot  surfaces,  or  on  sharp  corners.  The 
scars  and  bruises  which  cover  the  bodies  of  so  many  victims  of 
this  disease  bear  mute  witness  to  the  hardships  and  dangers  in 
the  path  of  the  epileptic.  Deaths  from  burning,  drowning  or 
other  accidents  are  not  infrequent. 

Dangerous  to  Others. 

The  seizures  lead  to  nervous  irritability  and  great  excite- 
ment, often  to  violence.  Criminal  instincts  develop.  Physical- 
1}-.  an  epileptic  is  strong,  and  his  sexual  instincts  are  often  ab- 
normally developed.  He  frequently  becomes  a  menace  to  women 
and  children. 

Some  of  the  stories  in  this  pamphlet  give  an  indication  of 
the  perils  and  indignities  suffered  by  girl  victims  of  this  dis- 
ease. Their  seizures  render  them  incapable  of  caring  for  them- 
selves at  times  and  the  nervous  and  mental  condition  often 
breaks  down   their  normrU  restraints. 

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NOT   A    POLICE    STATION    BUT   AN    EPILEPTIC 
COLONY    NEEDED. 


SOME  CAN  BE  CURED;  OTHERS  RADICALLY  HELPED. 

If  our  legislators  realized  that  an  improvement  could  be 
made  in  the  condition  of  people  afflicted  with  epilepsy,  they 
might  be  readier  to  appropriate  money  for  the  amelioration  of 
the  disease.  Physicians  agree  that  there  is  an  "improvable 
class."  "Of  this  class.''  says  Dr.  Frank  Billings,  in  an  article 
read  before  the  Illinois  State  Medical  Society  in  1909,  "10  per 
cent  or  more  can  be  cured  by  proper  care."  But  even  the  great 
majoritv  who  are  not  classed  as  improvable  can  be  greatly  bene- 
fited, mentally  and  physically,  by  living  under  properly  regu- 
lated conditions  in  an  atmosphere  of  sympathy  and  understand- 
ing. "It  has  been  found  that  in  a  colony,  regular  occupation,  se- 
lected diet  and  the  hygienic  life  result  in  a  material  improvement 
taking  place  in  a  large  majority  of  the  patients  living  in  the 
colony.  Mental  deterioration  is  often  stayed  or  seems  to  advance 
more  slowly,  the  seizures  diminish  in  frequency  in  a  considerable 
number  of  patients  and  in  two  or  three  per  cent  stop  entirely 
after  a  more  or  less  prolonged  residence  in  the  colony,"  says 
Dr.  \\'illiam  T.  Shanahan,  superintendent  of  the  Craig  Colony  at 
Sonyea,  Xew  York. 

OLD  METHOD  OF  TREATMENT:    OPIATES,  INSTITU- 
TION CARE. 

Sedatives  and  opiates  were  formerly  used  extensively  in 
the  treatment  of  epilepsy.  They  resulted  in  dulling  the  mental 
faculties  of  the  people  to  whom  they  were  given,  leaving  the 
unfortunates  out  of  pocket,  and  in  worse  physical  condition. 
Medical  treatment  of  epilepsy  is  at  the  best  uncertain  and  un- 
promising, according  to  Dr.  Frederick  Peterson.  A  large  pub- 
lic hospital  is  very  far  from  meeting  the  requirements  of  an 
epileptic  patient.  Asylums  should  receive  very  few,  and  alms- 
houses none  at  all.  What  is  demanded  is  an  institution  on  the 
community  or  village  plan  where  medical  treatment  may  be 
given  to  every  member,  and  where  every  sort  of  education,  em- 
ployment and  social  privilege  commensurate  to  his  needs  and 
conditions  mav  be  extended  to  anv  beneficiarv. 


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THE  NEW  METHOD— THE  COLONY  PLAN. 

This  is  apparently  the  most  approved  plan  for  the  better- 
ment of  the  condition  of  epileptics.  Victims  of  the  disease  are 
placed  in  colonies  on  a  large  tract  of  land,  usnally  about  one 
acre  of  land  to  each  epileptic.  This  gives  opportunity  for  farm- 
ing, gardening,  out  of  door  occupations  which  can  be  carried 
on  in  the  intervals  when  patients  are  able  to  do  physical  work. 
Dr.  Everett  Flood  of  Massachusetts  says  of  the  colony  plan  : 

"Where  a  few  years  ago  the  epileptic  was  stupitied  with 
sedatives  and  made  to  live  a  living  death,  under  colony  regime 
sedatives  are  used  as  little  as  possible,  and  an  effort  is  made  to 
find  the  best  treatment  in  each  case.  Strangely  enough  the  same 
agents  which  are  beneficial  in  combatting  tuberculosis  are  of  the 
greatest  benefit  in  these  cases.  Work  in  the  fresh  air  and  good, 
wholesome  and  carefully  chosen  foods  are  more  essential  than 
medicine.  Colonies  with  large  farms  proxide  these  to  ad- 
vantage, and  are  thoroughly  proved  to  be  the  most  satisfactory 
method  of  treatment  in  caring  for  this  disease." 

ADVANTAGES  OF  COLONY  FOR  CHILDREN. 

The  early  age  at  which  epilepsy  often  manifests  itself  makes 
it  especially  desirable  that  children'  have  a  place  where  they  may 
receive  the  kind  restraint  which  thev  need,  combined  with  the 
freedom  of  an  out-door  life.  Instead  of  being  barred  from 
school,  they  are  given  an  education  by  teachers  who  understand 
the  peculiar  disadvantages  under  which  they  study.  They  are 
taught  a  trade  which  renders  them  in  a  measure  self-supporting 
and  at  all  times  aft'ords  them  the  joy  of  work. 

COLONY  SCHEME  NOT  AN  EXPERIMENT. 

The  first  colony  for  epileptics  was  the  Bethel  Colony,  es- 
tablished in  1867  at  Bielefeld,  Germany.  This  began  with  a 
small  farm  and  one  house,  with  provision  for  four  epileptics. 
The  work  in  Germany  has  continued  until  they  now  have  fifty 
institutions  wdth  special  provisions  for  epileptics.  Switzerland 
has  three,  Holland  two,  England  nine,  Australia  one.  In  this 
country  Massachusetts,  Ohio,  New  York,  New  Jersey,  Kansas, 
Connecticut,  Texas,  Indiana  and  Virginia  have  colonies  for 
epileptics,  and  Michigan  and  Minnesota  have  provided  some  form 
of  institutional  care. 


NATURE  OF  THE  WORK  OF  A  COLONY. 

Dr.  Frederick  Peterson,  describing  a  visit  to  the  Bethel  Colony 
in  1886,  says: 

"The  employments  are  numerous  and  varied.  The  school 
provides  instruction  for  some  hundred  pupils  of  both  sexes  where 
all  branches  are  taught.  The  dairy  farm  and  garden  occupy 
the  attention  of  the  greatest  number  of  patients,  especially  as  a 
large  trade  in  vegetables  and  flower  seeds  is  carried  on  l^y  the 
colony.  Among  the  shops  of  epileptic  workmen  were  those  of 
cabinet  makers,  painters,  varnishers,  printers,  book  binders, 
blacksmiths,  foundrymen,  tailors  and  shoemakers,  and  among  the 
stores  were  groceries,  pharmacy,  book  store  and  seed  store.  The 
caqDenters  aided  in  building  and  furnishing  the  houses;  the 
plans  and  drawings  of  new  buildings  were  made  in  the  archi- 
tect's room.  For  men  alone  there  were  over  thirty  different 
callings." 

It  is  readily  seen  that  in  an  epileptic  colony  special  provision 
can  be  made  for  utilizing  the  work  which  can  be  done  in  the  in- 
tervals between  seizures.  In  this  way  the  fullest  returns  can  be 
secured  from  the  labor  of  the  patients.  In  the  Craig  Colony  at 
Sonyea,  New  York,  the  average  earning  of  an  epileptic  is  $35 
a  year.  The  improvable  patient  is  normal  about  95  per  cent  of 
the  time,  but  his  strength  is  not  sufficient  to  enable  him  to  ac- 
complish as  much  as  the  normal  man.  The  mental  influence 
upon  him,  however,  of  being  able  to  contribute  even  a  little  to 
his  own  support  is  extremely  beneficial. 

This  was  true  when  Dr.  Peterson  wrote  his  impressions  in 
1886.  \\"ith  each  test  of  the  colony  plan  since  then  the  prin- 
ciples underlying'  its  operation  have  given  added  proof  of  their 
soundness  and  efficiency.  This  point  cannot  be  emphasized  too 
often.  The  nine  existing  colonies  in  our  country  have  proven 
themselves  so  humane  and  effective  that  their  respective  com- 
munities are  distinctly  proud  in  their  possession.  Citizens  of 
these  states  are  conscious  of  a  certain  superiority  for  the  pro- 
gressiveness  and  humanity  which  led  to  the  establishment  and 
maintenance  of  these  splendid  institutions.  They  are  visited  by 
many  people,  and  there  is  a  distinct  added  reputation  to  each 
state  which  extends  its  protecting  care  in  this  way  to  the  afflicted 
people  within  its  borders. 

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THE  SELECTION  OF  LOCATION  IMPORTANT. 

For  these  state  colonies  great  care  must  be  used  in  the  se- 
lection of  a  site.  A  description  of  the  Sonyea  Colony  in  New 
York  gives  excellent  ideas  as  to  the  qualifications  to  be  secured. 

''The  land  is  beautifully  situated  in  the  Genesee  Valley  near 
the  town  of  ]\It.  Alorris,  in  one  of  the  finest  regions  of  the  state. 
It  is  ideally  located  to  serve  the  wants  of  a  model  colony  for 
epileptics.  It  is  traversed  by  two  streams,  one  of  which,  the 
Cashauqua  Creek,  flows  through  the  middle  of  the  land  and 
has  a  deep  gorge  with  a  fall  of  one  hundred  feet.  The  gorge 
and  creek  are  of  immense  advantage  for  the  complete  separation 
of  the  sexes  in  building  colony  life.  The  supply  of  water  is 
abundant,  and  the  conditions  of  sewerage  are  adequate  in  every 
respect.  The  A\'estern  Xew  York  and  Pennsylvania  Railway 
runs  through  the  land,  and  two  big  trunk  lines,  the  Erie  Rail- 
wav  and  the  Delaware  and  Lackawanna  Railroad,  are  within  a 
mile  of  the  proposed  colony.  The  soil  is  exceedingly  fertile 
and  well  adapted  for  all  manner  of  agriculture  and  horticulture 
and  the  production  of  berries  and  fruits  for  canning  industries, 
and  the  raising  of  garden  products  and  seeds  of  all  kinds.  There 
is  some  stone  and  brick  and  clay  which  will  prove  useful  in  the 
development  of  a  certain  class  of  outdoor  employment." 

Needs  in  Illinois. 

In  planning  a  colony  for  Illinois  it  is  estimated  that  pro- 
vision should  be  made  for  2,000  or  2,500.  An  acre  per  patient 
seems  to  have  proven  to  be  about  the  right  amount  of  land.  This 
would  mean  that  our  state  should  aim  to  secure  something  like 
2.000  acres.  Cheap  land,  rolling,  partly  wooded  if  possible, 
unimproved,  answers  the  purpose  admirably.  The  labor  of  pa- 
tients can  be  utilized  in  clearing  and  improving  the  land,  as  was 
done  so  successfully  in  the  state  of  Massachusetts.  A  region 
that  was  practically  valueless  has  been  transformed  into  an  ideal 
s]wt  for  the  purpose,  largely  through  the  efforts  of  the  patients 
themselves.  This  gives  the  advantage  of  cheap  land  in  the  be- 
ginning, and  affords  interesting'  and  useful  activity  for  the 
patients  out  in  the  open. 

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Attention  should  be  given  to  the  water  supply,  and  it  is 
said  that  a  clay  yielding  soil  is  of  advantage  in  affording  build- 
ing material,  in  the  preparation  of  which  the  labor  of  patients 
can  also  be  used.  The  raising  of  flowers  and  garden  stuffs  is 
likewise  an  occupation  especially  adaptable  to  this  class  of  people. 

When  it  is  remembered  that  living  and  working  out  of 
doors  has  done  more  for  the  cure  and  improvement  of  epileptics 
than  anything  else  discovered  by  medical  science,  the  importance 
of  giving  our  epileptics  in  Illinois  a  great  deal  of  land,  and  a 
chance  for  life  out  in  the  open,  is  apparent.  This  is  a  vital  thing, 
and  not  that  expensive  or  imposing  buildings  should  be  built. 

PREVIOUS   ATTEMPTS   TO    SECURE   A   COLONY    FOR 

ILLINOIS. 

The  great  need  for  a  colony  for  epileptics  in  this  state  has 
been  keenly  felt  by  the  victims  themselves — by  their  friends,  by 
physicians  and  laymen  alike.  This  has  resulted  in  many  activi- 
ties and  a  great  deal  of  work.  On  April  19,  1899,  Governor 
Tanner  approved  the  bill  of  the  Forty-first  General  Assembly, 
authorizing  the  establishment  of  the  Illinois  State  Colony  for 
Epileptics.  No  appropriation  has  ever  been  made  to  carry  it  into 
effect.  The  house  of  the  Forty-third  General  Assembly  passed  a 
bill  appropriating  $100,000  for  an  institution,  but  the  Senate 
failed  to  concur. 

It  was  expected  that  the  Forty-fifth  General  Assembly, 
1907,  would  appropriate  $265,000  for  the  colony,  but  neither 
this  assembly  nor  the  Forty-sixth,  1909,  which  was  asked  for 
$110,000,  made  an  appropriation. 

This  is  a  brief  story  of  the  attitude  of  our  Legislature.  In 
the  controversy  about  details,  and  because  the  legislators  of 
these  intervening  years  have  found  other  things  more  interesting 
and  more  important,  the  needs  of  this  army  of  ten  thousand  un- 
fortunate people  have  been  neglected.  Will  the  citizens  of  Illi- 
nois longer  acquiesce  in  this  injustice  and  neglect? 


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REPORT    OF    THE    COMMITTEE    OF    THE    ILLINOIS 
STATE  CONFERENCE  OF  CHARITIES  AND  COR- 
RECTIONS ON  THE  CARE  OF  EPILEP- 
TICS,   OCTOBER,    1912. 

^^'e.  at  least,  are  all  aware  of  the  existence,  without  finan- 
cial support,  of  a  "State  Colony  for  Epileptics"  in  this  state.  We 
also  are  extremely  desirous  that  this  stigma  shall  not  rest  longer 
upon  our  state,  and  to  this  end  we  wish  to  suggest  as  follows : 

First — The  drafting  of  an  entirely  new  bill  to  supplant  the 
bill  passed  by  the  Legislature  on  April  19,  1899,  and  drafted  to 
meet  present  conditions. 

Second — We  advise  the  purchase  by  the  state  of  sufficient 
land  to  admit  of  the  final  acceptance  of  2,000  unfortunates,  for 
we  believe  the  beneficent  result  of  such  care,  training  and  in- 
struction as  contemplated  will,  within  a  few  years,  be  extended 
over  at  least  this  number. 

Third— ^^'e  are  of  the  opinion  that  members  of  this  class 
can  largely  be  employed  with  great  benefit  to  themselves  and 
economy  to  the  state  in  construction  of  building-  and  develop- 
ment of  land,  and  that  the  final  per  capita  cost  will  be  less  than 
that  represented  by  the  care  of  any  other  class  of  public  wards. 

Fourth — \\''e  believe  such  a  colony  should  be  industrial 
rather  than  custodial,  educators  in  horticulture  and  agricultural 
schoolwork,  manual  training,  domestic  science  and  work — in 
fact,  an  intelligent  outlet  for  the  energies  of  a  class,  many  of 
whom  are  practically  normal  from  5  to  95  per  cent  of  their  time, 
yet  all  of  whom  are  "persona  non  grata"  in  every  branch  of  nor- 
mal life  and  endeavor. 

Fifth — We  l>elieve  the  purely  custodial  epileptics  can  be 
cared  for  with  the  existing  machinery  of  various  selected  state 
hospitals,  with  both  economy  and  benefit,  especially  at  the  Lin- 
coln State  School  with  its  900  acres. 

Sixth — ^^'e  are  quite  in  sympathy  with  the  Massachusetts 
plan  adopted  twelve  years  ago  at  Templeton  Colony,  ]\lassa- 
chusetts,  where  3,000  acres  of  raw  land  were  purchased  for  a 
surprisingly  small  sum.  al^out  $6.00  per  acre,  and  which  has  be- 
come immenselv  \"alual)le  under   the  constructive  policy  of  Dr. 

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Fernald,  who  has  utilized  the  waste  energies  of  several  hun- 
dred boys  for  years,  making  a  desert  blossom  as  the  rose.  The 
similarity  of  our  state's  requirements  is  such  that  we  advise  a 
similar  action  which  will  afford  congenial,  constructive  and  prac- 
tical work  for  all  classes  of  epileptics,  if  intelligently  planned  and 
intelligently  manned. 

Seventh — We  cannot  leave  the  subject  without  heartily  en- 
dorsing intelligent  preventive  measures  such  as  appeared  in  the 
Beall  bill  of  the  last  session  of  the  Legislature,  requiring  satis- 
factory evidence  of  fitness  for  marriage  and  preventing  by  law 
the  marriage  of  epileptics.  We  do  not  believe  a  confirmed  epilep- 
tic mother  ever  bore  a  normal  child,  nor  do  we  believe  a  feeble- 
minded mother  ever  bore  a  normal  child — though  exception  is 
taken  to  this  statement  by  one  of  our  members  and  this  excep- 
tion may  hinge  on  definition  and  private  experience  rather  than 
on  the  fact  of  established  epilepsy  as  regards  institutional  ex- 
perience. 

We  earnestly  request  every  member  of  this  conference  to 
make  a  personal  matter  of  the  alx)ve  requirements  with  their 
Senators  and  Representatives,  and  that  a  copy  of  this  report  be 
sent  to  every  Senator  and  Representative,  every  woman's  club, 
medical  society  and  anybody,  social  or  otherwise,  interested  in 
social  uplift  in  this  state. 

Dr.  W.  H.  C.  Smith, 
Dr.  H.  G.  Hardt^ 
Dr.  Hugh  T.  Patrick, 
Dr.  Frank  Billings, 
Dr.  E.  W.  Fiegenbaum, 
Dr.  Carl  Black. 


42- 


BIBLIOGRAPHY. 

(The  literature  on  the  social  aspect  of  epilepsy  is  scattered 
through  a  number  of  periodicals.  The  transactions  of  the  Na- 
tional Association  for  the  Study  of  Epilepsy  and  the  care  and 
treatment  of  Epileptics  contain  a  great  many  articles  of  inter- 
est and  importance  on  the  subject,  chiefly  on  the  medical  aspects 
of  the  disease;  however,  a  partial  list  is  given  below  of  articles 
and  books,  dealing  with  the  social  aspects  of  the  disease.) 

Billings.  Dr.  Frank — The  ^Modern  Treatment  of  the  Alen- 
tally  Sick.  Twenty-first  Fractional  Biennial  Report  of 
the  Illinois  Board  of  Charities,   19 ii. 

Cooper,  Dr.  A.  V. — Heredity  in  Epilepsy.  Transactions  of 
the  National  Association,  Vol.  LV.  1906,  p.  146. 

Davenport,  Dr.  Charles  B.  and  Dr.  D.  F.  Weeks — A  First 
Study  of  Inheritance  of  Epilepsy,  Journal  of  Mental  and 
Nervous  Diseases.    Vol.  38,  No.  11,  Nov.   191 1.  p.  641. 

Drewry,  Dr.  Wm.  F. — State  Provision  for  Epileptics.  The 
Charities  Review,  Jan.  1896,  p.  117. 

Dugdale,  Richard — The  History  of  the  Jukes. 

Flood,  Dr.  Everett — \Miat  Has  Been  Gained  for  the  Epilep- 
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1906,  p.   120;  Association,  Vol.  VIII,  1911,  p.  73. 

Graves,  Wm.  C. — The  Care  of  Epileptics  in  Special  Institu- 
tions in  the  United  States.  Transactions  of  the  National 
Association,  Vol.  VIII,  1912,  p.  11;  also  reprinted  in 
"Epilepsia,"  Vol.  Ill,  published  by  J.  A.  Barth,  Leipzig. 

Guild,  Dr.  F.  W. — The  Significance  of  the  Onset  of  Convul- 
sions to  the  Epileptic.  Transactions  of  the  National  As- 
sociation, Vol.  VIII,  191 1,  p.  118. 

FiTzsiMMaNS,  Dr.  Thomas  C. — The  Future  of  the  Ameri- 
can Epileptic.  Transactions  of  the  National  Association, 
Vol.  VI,  1908,  p.  75- 

Healy,  Dr.  Wm. — Epilepsy  and  Crime:  the  Cost.  A  report 
from  the  Juvenile  Psychopathic  Institute,  Chicago,  Illi- 
nois Medical  Journal,  November.  191 2,  p.  7. 
Mental  Defects  and  Delinquents.  Proceedings  of  the 
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rections, Boston,  191 1,  p.  59. 

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HoDGKiNS,  Dr.  Morgan  B.  —  A  Consideration  of  Heredity 
as  a  Factor  in  the  Causation  of  Epilepsy.  Transactions 
of  the  National  Association,  Vol.  V,  1907,  p.  56. 

JoHN'STONE^  Edw,  R. — Piiblic  Provision  for  the  Feeble-Minded. 
The  Survey,  Vol.  27,  p.  1864.     March  2,  19 12. 

Letchworth,  \Ym.  Pryor — Care  and  Treatment  of  Epileptics. 
New  York,  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons,  1900. 

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State  Board  of  Charities,  1908,  p.  153. 
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p.  6s. 

MuNSON,  Dr.  J.  F. — Public  Care  of  Epileptics.  Proceedings 
of  the  Thirty-seventh  National  Conference  of  Charities 
and  Corrections,  St.  Louis,  1910.  p.  293. 

Patrick,  Dr.  Hugh  T. — The  Proper  Treatment  and  Care 
of  the  Epileptic.  Proceedings  of  the  Eleventh  Annual 
Meeting  of  the  Illinois  State  Conference  of  Charities, 
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April,  1907,  p.  50. 

Pollock,  Dr.  H.  M. — Colonies  for  the  Care  and  Treatment 
of  Epileptics  in  Connection  with  State  Hospitals  for  the 
Insane.  Transactions  of  the  National  Association,  Vol. 
IV,  1906,  p.  162. 

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Massachusetts,  New  Jersey,  Kansas,  Texas,  Indiana, 
Virginia  and  Connecticut. 

RiNAKER,  Hon.  Lewis,  Judge  of  Cook  County — Epilepsy  as 
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Spratling.  Dr.  Wm.  P. — Epilepsy  and  Its  Treatment. 

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The  Survey  for  ]\Iarch  2,  1912,  containing  a  symposium  on 
the  Care  of  Defectives  by  leading  authorities  in  the  field. 

Third  Report  of  the  New  Jersey  Committee  on  Provision  for 
the  Feeble-Minded  and  Epileptic.  Mrs.  C.  B.  Alexander, 
Vineland,  X.  ].,  Chairman;  February,  1912. 

Weeks,  Dr.  H.  M. — The  Utilization  of  Epileptic  Labor.  Trans- 
actions of  the  National  Association,  Vol.  V,  1907,  p.  62. 

Weeks,  Dr.  David  F. — What  New  Jersey  is  Doing  for  the 
Epileptic.  Archives  of  Pediatrics,  Vol.  XXLX,  No.  4, 
April,  191 2.     (See  also  Davenport.) 

\\'ooDs.   Dr.    ]Mattiiew — In   Spite  of  Epilepsy.     Transactions 
of  the  X'ational  Association.    Vol.  VI,  1908,  p.  45. 
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National  Association,  Vol.  VIII,   191 1,  p.  64. 


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A  Program  for  the  Campaign* 

What  You  Can  Do,  and  How. 

1.  There  are  fifty-one  senatorial  districts  in  this  state. 
Each  has  a  senator  and  three  representatives. 

2.  For  boundaries  of  your  senatorial  district  see  page  30. 
of  this  pamphlet. 

3.  For  names  and  addresses  of  your  senator  and  repre- 
sentatives see  slip  enclosed. 

4.  For  estimated  number  of  epileptics  in  your  senatorial 
district  see  page  28. 

5.  Doctors,  social  workers,  ministers,  superintendents,  in- 
terested citizens — acquaint  yourselves  with  the  circumstances  of 
every  epileptic  in  your  senatorial  district  wha  needs  public  care. 

6.  Visit,  telephone  or  write  your  senator  and  representa- 
tives.   They  will  be  glad  to  co-operate  if  you  give  them  the  facts. 

7.  Give  the  names  and  addresses  of  your  senator  and  rep- 
resentatives to  friends  or  relatives  of  epileptics  who  are  not 
receiving  proper  care.  Ask  them  to  write  or  call  on  their  rep- 
resentatives. 

8.  Get  ministers  to  preach,  women's  clubs  and  clubs  and 
societies  generally  to  discuss  the  need  for  an  epileptic  colony  in 
Illinois. 

9.  Give  items  about  the  subject  to  your  local  papers. 

10.  Consult  your  library  for  books  and  pamphlets  referred 
to  in  the  Bibliography  on  pages  43  to  45.  and  for  other  material. 

11.  Get  in-  touch  with  your  County  Medical  Society. 

12.  Write  to  Mr.  A.  L.  Bowen,  Secretary  of  the  State 
Charities  Commission,  and  to  the  State  Board  of  Administra- 
tion, Springfield.  111.,  for  information,  suggestion,  and  speakers. 

For  additional  copies  of  this  pamphlet,  free  on  application, 
for  copies  of  the  Bill  now  in  preparation,  for  other  material  on 
this  subject,  address  Sherman  C.  Kingsley,  Secretary  of  this 
Committee,  315  Plymouth  Court,  Chicago,  111. 


STATE  SENATORS,    1913. 


20. 
21. 


Francis   P.    Brady Chicago 

20:!«  Indiana   Ave. 

Francis  A.    Hurley Chicago 

101.5  Cypress  St. 

Samuel  A.    Ettelson Chicago 

3:^15  Calumet  Ave.    (Res.) 
30  S.  La  Salle  St.    (Bus.) 

AI  F.  Gorman Chicago 

54:!(!  S.   Morgan  St. 

Walter  Clyde  .Tones Chicago 

5.>+l   Woodlawn  Ave.    (Res.) 
Fort  Dearborn   BIdg.    (Bus.) 

George  W.  Harris Chicago 

I'JO.'!   .Montrose  Ave. 

William   H.    Maclean Wilmette,   111. 

Albert   J.    Olson Woodstocli,    111. 

Patrick  J.   Carroll Chicago 

.SS27   Campbell  Ave. 

Henry  Andrus Rockford,    III. 

Carl   Luiidberg    Chicago 

.5917  S.   Halsted  St. 

Michael   11.   Cleary Galena,    HI. 

Albert    C.    Clark Chicago 

7137   Euclid  Ave. 

Thomas  B.   Stewart Aurora.    111. 

Edward  J.  Forst  Chicago 

1817  S.   Ashland  Ave. 

Christian  Haase Washburn,   111. 

Edward  J.   Glackin Chicago 

618  S.   Morgan  St. 

John  Dailey    Peoria,   111. 

John  T.    Denvir Chicago 

1846    S.   40th  Ave. 

Edward  C.   Curtis Grant  Park,   111. 

John  E.   Madigaii Chicago 

.324    .\rtesian   Ave.    (Res.) 
1439   Unity    Bldg.    (Bus.) 


22.  Martin   B.  Bailey nanville,   111. 

23.  Xeils  Juul    Chicago 

2(U5  Potomac  Ave. 

24.  Raymond  1).  Meeker SuUlvan,  111. 

25.  Johan  Waage   Chicago 

4034   N.   42nd   Ave.    (Res.) 
69  W.   Washington  St.    (Bus.) 

26.  Noah   E.   Franklin Lexington,   III. 

27.  John   Broderick    Chicago 

122  Aberdeen  St. 

28.  Willis   R.   Shaw Decatur,   111. 

29.  John  M.   O'Connor Chicago 

1041    Rush   St.    (Res.) 
69  W.  Washington  St.   (Bus.) 

30.  Walter  I.  Manny Mt.  Sterling,   HI. 

31.  W.   H.  Cornwell Chicago 

382.5   Alta  Vista   Terrace.    (Res.) 
.38  S.   DearlMirn  St.    (Bus.) 

32.  William  A.   Conipton Macomb,    111. 

33.  Frank    A.   Landee Moliiie,   111. 

34.  John  R.  Hamilton Mattoon,   111. 

315.  John  H.   Gray Moriison,    III. 

36.  Campbell  S.   Hearn Quincy,    111. 

37.  Hugh  S.  Magill,  Jr Princeton,   111. 

38.  Stephen  D.  Canaday Hillsboro,   111. 

39.  Heurj'  W.  Johnson Ottawa,   111. 

40.  F.  Jeff  Tossey Toledo,   111. 

41.  Richard  J.    Barr Juliet,   111. 

42.  F.  C.  Campbell Xenia,   111. 

43.  C.   F.    Hurburgh Galesburg,   111. 

44.  Kent   E.    Keller Ava,    111. 

45.  Logan  Hay    Springfield',   111. 

46.  W.  Duff  Pierey Mt.   Vernon,    111. 

47.  Edniond  Beall Alton,    111. 

48.  James   A.   Womack Eqn.nlity.   111. 

49.  John  M.  CHiamberlin,  Jr. .  .E.  St.  Louis,  III. 

.50.    D.  T.    Woodard Beiiloii.   HI. 

51.  Douglas   W.   Helm Metropolis,  IlL 


HOUSE    OF    REPRESENTATIVES,    1913. 


Slaurice   J.    Clarke Chic;>go 

124  E.  22nd   St.  "   ' 

John  H.  Taylor Chicago 

2440  Prairie  Ave. 

John   Grifiin    Chicago 

2020  Indiana   Ave. 

Frank  J.   .McXichols Chicago 

1103  S.  Winchester  Ave. 

Frank    J.     Suite Chicago 

2072   Ogden   Ave. 

John  F.  McCarty Chicago 

714  S.  Claremont  Ave. 

F.  K  J.  Lloyd Chicago 

362.5  Grand   Blvd. 

John  P.  Walsh Chicago 

3137  I'nion  Ave. 

Henry   M.   Ash  ton Chicago 

3716  Lake  Ave. 

Martin  R.   Gorman Chicago 

15106  S.   Paulina   St. 

George  C.   Hilton Chicago 

5440  Winchester  Ave. 

Hubert   Ki'ens    Chicago 

.5026   S.    Ashland   Ave. 

Morton  D.    Hull Chicago 

48.55  Woodlawn  Ave. 

Isaac   S.    Rothschild Chicago 

4444   Prairie  Ave. 

Michael    L.    Igoe Chicago 

.5463  Greenwood  Ave. 

Charles  S.   (Jraves Evanston,   HI. 

1925  Maple  Ave.   (Res.) 
Oiis   Building   (Bus.) 

Robert  K.   Wilson Chicago 

4025  Perry  St. 

Joseph    A.    Weber Chicago 

1921    Belmont    Ave. 

Frederick  R.    Roos F<irest  Park,   111. 

John    M.    Curran Winnetka.     111. 

J.    J.    O'Rourke Harvey.    111. 


S.   Edward   D.    Slnirtleff Marengo.    111. 

8.   Fayette   S.    Munro Highland  Park,   III. 

8.  Thomas   E.   Graham Ingleside.   111. 

9.  David  E.  Shanahan Chicago 

115    S.    Dearborn   St. 

9.  Rudolph  Stoklasa    (Chicago 

2247  S.   Kedzie   Ave. 

9.   Robert  J.   Mulcahy Chicago 

3124  Archer   Ave. 

10.  ,Tohn  A.    Atwood Stillman   Valley,  lil. 

10.  .John   Coleman    Rochclle,    111. 

10.  Andrew   J.    Lovejoy Roscoe,    111. 

11.  Robson  Barron    Chicago 

1419  W.   Garfield  Blvd. 

11.   Frank    J.    Ryan Chicago 

(JsiS  Biishop  St. 

11.  Henry  F.   Sehulierth Chicago 

7832  Lowe   Ave. 

12.  T.    H.    Hollister Fteeport,   III. 

12.   Martin  J.    Dillon Ga.ena,    HI. 

12.  R.   R.   Thompson Kent.    111. 

13.  E.   J.    Schnackeiiberg Chicago 

270(1  E.    75th    Place. 

13.   Benton  F.   Kleeman Chicago 

11444  Prairie  Ave. 

13.  Seymour  Stedman    Chicago 

IKSS   v..  noth   St. 

14.  Frank   W.   Sbepbvrd Elgin.  111. 

14.    Heiiiy   B.    Fargo Geneva.   111. 

14.  Charles  F.   Clyne Aurora.    111. 

15.  Thomas  Cur  an Chicago 

202.3  S.   Center  Ave. 

15.   Peter  F.    Smith Chicago 

KM  IS  S.  Union  St. 

15.  Joseph  O.    Ilruby Chicago 

180C.  S.   Center  Ave. 

16.  Henry  A.  Foster Fairbnry.   111. 

IC.   (lias.   II.  Cannon Forrest.  111. 

10.   Michael  Faliy    Toluca,   111. 


HOUSE    OF    REPRESENTATIVES,    1913— Continued. 


2(i. 
2(i. 
2(;. 


Edward  J.  Srae.ikal Chicago 

5(j0  Bunker  St. 

Tony   Trimarco Cliicago 

723  Loomis  St. 

Jolin  S.   Burns Ctiicago 

622  Blue  Island  Ave. 

Lucas   I.   Butts Peoria,    111. 

Thomas  N.   Gorman Peoria,    IlL 

George    Fitch Peoria,    111. 

Joseph  C.  Blaha Chicago 

37:H6  W.   loth  St. 

R.   E.  Sherman Chicago 

4010  Gladys  Ave. 

John  J.   McLaughlin Chicago 

310.5  Washington  Blvd. 

Israel   Dudgeon Morris,   111. 

Daniel  O'Connell   Kinsman,  111. 


.Essex,  III. 
. . .  .Chicago 


. . .  Chicago 


111. 
111. 
111. 
111. 


William  H.   Dunn 

John   Grunau   

22.'il  Park   Ave. 

Edward  T.  Farrar 

748  N.   .-)3rd  Ave. 

Benjamin   M.   Mitchell Chicago 

3240  Washington  Blvd. 

Chas.   W.   Fleming Danville, 

William  P.   Holaday Georgetown, 

(Jeoige  W.    Myers Paris, 

George   A.    Jliller Oak    Park, 

6C4  S.   Scoville  Ave. 

C.   M.  Madsen Chicago 

332S  Beach  Ave. 

Emil  N.   Zolla Chicago 

l'.i24   W.    Division   St. 

William  F.   Burres T'rbana,   111. 

F.   B.    Williamson Urbana,   111. 

.Toseph  Carter Champaign,    111. 

Charles   G.    Hutchinson Chicago 

.3.">24  McLean   Ave. 

Edward  J.    I'ostello Chicago 

30.>"   Palmer  Square 

Joseph  M.   JIason Chicago 

3027    N.    Spaulding  A\e. 
.\liraliam  ('.   Thompson.  ..  .Piper  City,   111. 

William    Knwe Saybrook^   111. 

Fl-.-ink   (iilleside Bloomington.    111. 

.Mbert  Rostenkowski    Chicago 

1261   Xobie  St. 

Joseph  Pitloek    Chicago 

130S  Chittenden  St. 

James  M.    Donlan Chicago 

a->4   W.    Madison  St. 

William  McCJinley Decatur,  111. 

Cyrus  J.    Tucker Decatur,    111. 

^A^    W.    McCormick Emden,   111. 

Medill    McCormick    Chicago 

22  E.  Goethe  St. 

Patrick  J.   Sullivan Chicago 

210   -nniiting   St. 

James  H.    Farrell    Chicago 

1147  Wells  St. 

George   B.   Wiemer San  Jose,    111. 

William   M.   Groves Petersburg^  111. 

A.   M.    Foster Rushviib>     111. 

Franklin   S.    Catlin Chicago 

451   BeUlen  Ave. 


31.  William   McKinley    Chicago 

40.53  Sheridan  Road. 

31.  Harry   L.    Shaver Chicago 

6347  Winthrop  Ave. 

.32.  R.    A.   Elliot Monmouth,  II 

32.  John   Huston    BlandinsvUle,  II 

32.  J.   H.  Jayne M<inniouth,  II 

33.  Chas.   A.   Clark Sherrard,  II 

33.  Everett  L.    Wertz Oquawka,  II 

33.  Thomas   Campbell Rock   Island,  II 

.34.  William  T.    Hollenbeck Marshall.  11 

34.  Polk   B.    Briscoe Westtield,  II 

.34.  Edward  F.    Poorman Mattoon,  I 

35.  Alfred  N.  Abbott Morrison,  II 

.35.  John  P.  Devine Dixon,  II 

35.  Roy   D.   Hunt DeKalb,  II 

36.  George   H.  Wilson Quincy,  II 

36.  William   H.   Hoffman Quincv,  II 

36.  E.   T.   Strubiiiger El   Dara,  II 

37.  Clayton   C.    Pervier Sheffield.  II 

.37.  Frank  W.  Morrasy Sheffield,  II 

37.  Randolph  Boyd Galva,  II 

38.  S.   Elmer   Simpson .Carrollton,  II 

.38.  William   A.   Hubbard Carrollton,  II 

38.  Henry  A.   Shepard Jersevvillcj  II 

39.  O.    E.   Benson Ottawa.  II 

39.  Lee    O'Xeil  Browne Ottawa,  II 

39.  William   M.   Scanlon Peru,  II 

40.  Walter   .M.   Provine Tayloi-ville.  II 

4(>.  .\rlhnr  Roe   Vandalia,  11 

40.  .Tolin  C.   Richardson Edlnburg,  II 

41.  James    11.    .Alexander Lcickp:iri,  li 

41.  William    R.    McCabe Lockport,  IlL 

41.  Ezra  E.    .Miller Naperville,  111. 

42.  Robert   S.   Jones Flora.  lU. 

42.  Walter   E.    Rinehart Effingham.  III. 

42.  Fred   J.    Koch    New   Baden,  111. 

43.  Edward   .1.    King Galesburg,  III. 

43.  W.    B.   Elliott Williamstielil,  111. 

43.  E.    W.   Dnvall Lewisfcm.  III. 

44.  .\.    II.   Cohlmeyer Nashville,  111. 

44.  Judson    E.    Harriss Dnquoin.  111. 

44.  James   M.    Etherton Carbo.idale,  111. 

45.  Thomas  E.    Lyon Springfield,  111. 

4.5.  James  F.    Morris Springfield.  III. 

45.  Jame^  M.    Bell Rochester,  III. 

46.  Chas.   L.  Wo<id Keens,  111. 

46.  John   M.    Rapp Fairfield,  111. 

40.  R.   J.   Kasserman Newton,  111. 

47.  Norman  (i.   Flagg Moro,  111. 

47.  Ferdinand   A.  Garesche Madison.  111. 

47.  William   Dickman Edwardsville,  111. 

48.  James  A.    Watson Elizabethtown,  111. 

4.8.  Chas.   L.   Scott Grayville.  111. 

48.  William  E.   I  inley Bridgep<:)rt.  111. 

49.  Fred    Keck Belleville,  111. 

49.  Chas.   A.    Karch Belleville.  111. 

49.  L.   S.    McWilliams E.  St   Louis,  111. 

.50.  R.    D.    Kirkpatrick Benton.  111. 

.50.  Charles  Curran   Mound  City,  111. 

50.  George  W.   Crawford Anna,  III. 

51.  George   B.    Baker Golconda,  111. 

51.  Elwood    Barker McLeansboPo,  111. 

R.    F.   D.    No.  3. 

51.  W.   C.   Kane Ilarrisburg,  111. 


THE   COMMITTEE   OF   FIFTY. 


Jane  Addams 

Mrs.  Arthur  T.  Aldis 

Dr.  Frank  Billings 

Francis  G.  Blair 

A\'.  L.  BoDixE 

Mrs.  Clara  P.  Bourland 

A.  L.  Bowen 

Mrs.  Joseph  T.  Bowen 

Rev.  Joseph  H.  Chandler 

Geo.  E.  Cole 

Mrs.  George  R.  Dean 

j\Irs.  Frederick  A.  Dow 

W.  F.  Dummer 

Marquis  Eaton 

Rt.  Rev.  Samuel  Fallows 

Henry  B.  Favill,  ^I.  D. 

William  Graves 

Prof.  E.  C.  Hayes 

Wm.  J.  Healy,  M.  D. 

Alice  Henry 

Emil  G.  Hirsch 

Sherman'  C.   Kingsley 

'Harry  A.  Lipsky 

M.  D.  Lynch 

F.  Emory  Lyon 

Minnie  F.  Lowe 


J.  T.  McAnally,  M.  D. 

Rev.  D.  p.  MacMillan 

Cyrus  H.  McCormick 

MaryGilruthMcEwen.M.D. 

Joseph  ]\Ieyers 

Anna  Nichols 

Dr.  Frank  Norbury 

Rev.   Peter  J.  O'Callaghan 

Hon.  Harry  Olson 

George  T.   Palmer,   M.  D. 

Hugh  T.   Patrick,  M.  D. 

Geo.  W.  Perkins 

Hon.  Merritt  W.  Pinckney 

John  M.  Rapp 

Julius  Rosenwald 

Hon.  L.  Y.  Sherman 

\\'.  H.  C.  Smith.  ^L  D. 

Rt.  Rev.  John  L.  Spalding 

Douglas  Sutherland 

Graham  Taylor 

Charles  H.  Wacker 

Edmund  \Yeis,  M.  D. 

Harry  A.  \\'heeler 

Edwin'  R.^  Wright 

]\Irs.  Ella  Flagg  A'oung 


For  copies  of  Pamphlet  and  additional  information  address 

SHERMAN  C.  KLNGSLEY, 

315  Plymouth  Court, 

Chicago,  III. 


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